WHEREAS, Batas Pambansa Blg. 230 has appropriated funds for the operation of the National Government during CY 1983;

WHEREAS, Batas Pambansa Blg. 230 is based on a program of revenue, generation and expenditure as embodied in the President ™s Budget Message;

WHEREAS, a program of revenue generation and expenditure needs to be adopted, within the context of national develops merit goals and agency objectives and performance, targets;

WHEREAS, available, funds of the government have to be apportioned among priority programs and projects of agencies in order to attain maximum benefits at minimum costs; and

WHEREAS, it is necessary to provide for the organization and staffing of the National Government;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby. Order and Direct:

1. The budgetary programs, and projects, agency objectives and functions, accomplishment, targets, and the program of revenue generation and expenditure of the National Government for the year nineteen hundred and eighty three as embodied in the attached document is hereby approved for implementation, subject to the provisions of Batas Pambansa Bilang 230 and existing law, particularly P.D. No. 1177 (as amended).

2. The personal services itemization embodied in the attached document, including the General and Special Provisions, therein, pertaining to allowances, fringe benefits, methods of compensation, and allied matters, is hereby approved, pursuant to the provisions of P.D. No. 1177 (as. amended), P.D. No. 985 (as amended) and P.D. No. 1285. This approval authorizes the implementation of new staffing patterns of reorganized agencies as reflected in the personal services itemization.

3. The Development Budget Coordination Committee shall evaluate and recommend such measures as. may be necessary to attain the levels of revenue, expenditure and debt to meet development targets in the context of national developmental goals, economic ™ growth, rates price levels, domestic credit and Balance of Payments objectives.

4. The initial expenditure program shall be reduced by budgetary reserves as may be necessary in order, to anticipate possible ™ shortfalls in revenue estimates and possible increases in the cost of implementing major on-going priority projects, to provide for the acceleration, of the geothermal and other energy programs, and to adequately ™ implement priority programs such as food, peace-and order and justice.

5. All agencies shall exert their, best efforts to comply with the work programs in order to attain the accomplishment and unit cost targets indicated in the budgetary program, so- as to achieve the desired results with maximum efficiency, so economy, economy and effectiveness.

Done in the City of Manila this 14th day of September in the year of Our-Lord Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Three.

Done in the City of Manila this 4th day of September in the year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Three

(SGD.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President

By the President:

(SGD.) JUAN C. TUVERA
Presidential Assistant